High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1247
Baiju campaigns in Anatolia
1247
The Mongol general Baiju Noyan consolidated control over the former Seljuk lands of Anatolia, installing compliant sultans and collecting tribute. His marches terrified the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia into a permanent alliance with the Mongols that would last decades. Baiju's presence in Anatolia also disrupted trade routes, forcing Italian merchants to seek alternative paths eastward through the ports of Trebizond and Tana.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.